Positions taken during the campaign have created uncertainty in Mexico about what President Obama’s policies will be. The question that raises the most immediate concern, because it was created by Obama, is how he will deal with his repeated statements to renegotiate...

The newly reelected prime minister of Canada announces his appointments of ministers for the new cabinet. Riots in prisons across Mexico over the last two months point toward a crisis in the country’s penitentiary system, and...